River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-08-04

pride to the Dow liquor law and concludes
with the Grosvenor resolution endorsing
Mr. Sherman (given above.) The platform,
as read. was adopted without any com
ment Mr. Sherman having been named for
permanent chairman, presided during the
remainder of the convention.
Mr.. SHERMAN SPEAKS.
/ thank you with all my heart for the
high compliment of presiding over this dis
tinguished assemblage. / think the Repub
licans of Ohio in this respect, have been
partial to me, and l am called on this oc-
casion to preside because l attended the
first Republican convention of Ohio, where
the Republican party was born. and have
watched and wondered and followed its
splendid history and its magnificent pro
gress from that day to this. And now i
congratulate you upon the fact that the
great body of your work has already been
done by the people of Ohio. All you have
to do is to record and announce the results
of their decisions. In every district in Ohio
a voice comes to us from the unanimous
mouths of the Republicans of Ohio for the
denomination of Gov. Joseph b. Foraker.
No man was ever presented as a candidate
with more hearty, generous and frank en-
dorsement than he, and he deserves it, be-
cause he has fairly earned this nomination
at your hands. He has prevented the Demo
cratic president of the United States from
surrendering to the Confederates the flags
and banners which thew lost in the Rebel
lion. In this he has touched the patriotic
heart of the whole country, and therefore we
take pride in this endorsement of him by
our unanimous denomination as good Re
pnblicans and true friends to the cause.
He commended the work of the legisla-
ture at the last session, saying:
The Union soldier is on almost every page
of the volume, of work they did, the record
of the faithfulness due to him, and of the
gratitude and obligations of a patriotic
people for his sacrifices and his services
They were also watchful for the rights If
labor and of the laboring men, who, after
all, is the foundation of cur structure, and
whose reasonable demands ought always to
be heard and always 10 be needed You
tried Democratic legislature little while
ago, and hope God will keep you from ever
trying it again. 1t was a legislature tainted
with fraud, and it was blackened by cleo
ton crimes They left the state in debt
with is ordinary expenses unprovided for.
I tell you with all frankness that | think
more of your unanimous praise this day
uttered than | do of the office of president
of the United States | would rather feel
that stood before you now, at this period
of my life, man and boy living always in
Ohio-that now, at this late period, the Re
publicans of Ohio, for whose welfare have
devoted so much of my life, are willing to
say this much for me. l know that this
resolution is of no Importance unless the
voters of the districts OF Ohio and of the
Union shall, of their own free choice, elect
delegates who viii agree with you in your
opinion. recognize the distinct rule and
right of every district 10 speak its own voice.
GOV. FoRAKER's RECONCILIATION.
Dr. Graydon nominated Gov Foraker
for a second term in a ten-minute speech.
There was much cheering, and the motion
was carried by reclamation amid a whirl-
wind of cheers 1t did not take the con
vention long to complete the state ticket,
and the convention adjourned at 1880. The
complete ticket is as follows:
Governor, j. b. Foraker (renominated) A.;
lieutenant governor, Capt w. c. Lyon
supreme Judge dong term, William I.
Spear supreme judge (shOrt term, +. j..
Dlckman (renominated) auditor, +. W.
Poe; treasurer, j. G.. Brown; attorney
general, ID. X. Watson; member board of
public works, &. A Flickinger.
THE BLAINE MEN.
ToLEDA, o., July Is. The abandonment at
the last moment by the friends of Mr..
Blaine of their intended opposition of the
endorsement of Senator Sherman by to-
days convention was due to the interfer-
ence of some. of Blaine's lieutenants in
the east This can be stated upon the best
authority. After the committee on plat
form had finally decided last night to re-
port the Grosvenor resolutions, dispatches
were received from the east by the chief
leader of the anti Sherman element, saying
that opposition on the floor of the conven-
ton would be iil-advised, and calculated to
do more harm than good to Blaine's inter
ests. ThereupOn it was decided to let the
question go by default. The eastern ad
visers, it is said, were Messrs. Boutelle and
Milliken.